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Crax alector
Curassow Cu*ras"sow (k?-r?s"s?), n. [Native name in Brazil.] (Zool.) A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax, Ourax, etc., of the family Cracid[ae]. Note: The crested curassow (Crax alector) is black, and about the size of a small hen-turkey, with an erectile crest of curled feathers. It ranges from Mexico to Brazil. The galeated curassow or cushew bird (Ourax Pauxi) is similar in size, and has a large, hollow, blue, pear-shaped protuberance on the head.

Meaning of Crax alector from wikipedia

- The black cur****ow (Crax alector), also known as the smooth-billed cur****ow and the crested cur****ow, is a species of bird in the family Cracidae, the...
- four genera are restricted to tropical South America; a single species of Crax ranges north to Mexico. They form a distinct clade which is usually classified...
- Crax is a genus of cur****ows in the order Galliformes, a clade of large, heavy-bodied, ground-feeding birds. They are known from tropical South America...
- Crax hybrids are not easily predicted, but character displacement would demand the eastern (if any) subspecies of the black cur****ow (C. a. alector)...
- distinguished from the wattled cur****ow (Crax globulosa) by being less bluish-black and from the black cur****ow (Crax alector) by being less purplish-black. The...
- Crax blumenbachii von Spix 1825 Black cur****ow, Crax alector Linnaeus 1766 Bare-faced cur****ow, Crax fasciolata von Spix 1825 Genus Mitu Lesson 1831 (razor-billed...
- Crax daubentoni Gray, GR, 1867 NT Black cur****ow, Crax alector Linnaeus, 1766 VU Wattled cur****ow, Crax globulosa Spix, 1825 EN Crestless cur****ow, Mitu...
- cur****ow, Crax rubra Blue-billed cur****ow, Crax alberti (E-CO) Yellow-****bed cur****ow, Crax daubentoni (E-SA) Black cur****ow, Crax alector (E-SA) Wattled...
- Black cur****ow, Crax alector Wattled cur****ow, Crax globulosa (vulnerable) Bare-faced cur****ow, Crax fasciolata Red-billed cur****ow, Crax blumenbachii (E)...
- Pipile ****anensis Variable chachalaca, Ortalis motmot Black cur****ow, Crax alector Crestless cur****ow, Mitu tomentosum Order: Galliformes   Family: Odontophoridae...